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“He’s the best!”: Watch Andy Timmons and Paul Gilbert have big fun trading Robby Krieger licks on a helter-skelter guitar jam of the Doors’ Light My Fire

One minute they’re hanging out at Sweetwater Studios talking gear, technique, having “a friendly jam in A”, the next they’re playing a Dorian-infused Doors improv that’ll blow your mind

Guitar World

Light My Fire turned The Doors into superstars: For a moment, it also turned Jim Morrison into a target for the Mob

The Doors experienced their first taste of big success with Light My Fire, but it infuriated a certain Frank Sinatra

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Blue Öyster Cult's new album is an AI-assisted collection of songs recorded decades ago

BÖC launch video for So Supernatural and detail Ghost Stories album, which includes covers of songs by MC5, The Doors and The Animals

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“It was the kind of place where you could start a religion or plan a murder”: the story behind The Doors’ Morrison Hotel album cover

How an LA flophouse and the original Hard Rock Café played a part in creating the iconic artwork of The Doors’ Morrison Hotel album

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“It looked cool – especially when you took acid… those horns looked like the devil!”: The Doors’ Robby Krieger on his love of the SG, studio accidents and a challenging move away from his signature fingerstyle

The influential Doors guitarist is back with a new record. He explains how he’s (almost) found comfort in a new way of playing

Guitar World

"When I first heard it, driving round LA, it sounded great, it leapt out of the speakers": the story of The Doors' Love Her Madly

The Doors' Robby Krieger reveals how he came to write Love Her Madly, how Jim Morrison loved it, and how their producer didn't

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“I’m still looking for my original SG. If anyone out there knows anything about that, please call me. Seriously!” Robby Krieger is trying to track down his stolen Gibson SG Special used on Light My Fire and the Doors’ most iconic material

The guitarist has repeated his call for help in tracking down –and buying back – the early-’60s Gibson SG Special and is asking players to look for the serial number

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Backstage at the final Kiss show: Only in the pyrotechnic new issue of Classic Rock

Also available: the special, limited edition Kiss bundle edition. Inside: Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy, Nirvana, The Doors, Saxon, Peter Gabriel and more

Louder

‘He lived for the music’: Jim Ladd, ‘The Last DJ’ who inspired Tom Petty song, dies aged 75

DJ who ‘never stopped caring’ was the inspiration for Tom Petty’s 2002 song and album, ‘The Last DJ’

The Independent UK

From Bruce Springsteen to Beyonce: 10 Eddie Vedder duets you need to watch

Springsteen, the Stones, Neil Young, R.E.M., Coldplay, QOTSA, The Doors, Beyoncé... the Pearl Jam frontman has sung with them all.

Louder

Goth connections that led to the Cure

From Sylvia Plath to Joy Division, the Cure co-founder examines the roots and impact of the oft-maligned subculture

Salon

Christian Marclay: Doors review – a nightmarishly entertaining video labyrinth

As one door opens, another slams in our face in this thoroughly absorbing montage of film clips cleverly edited to derail, disorient and delight its viewer

The Guardian - UK

‘It became a nightmare’: artist Christian Marclay on global smash The Clock – and his new work Doors

His 24-hour clock made of movie clips was a sensation. Can Doors, a montage of screen stars entering and leaving rooms, beat it? The artist reveals how lockdown and our new age of anxiety pushed him to finish it

The Guardian - UK

The definitive ranking of the 14 greatest American-born rock bands of all time

You will probably agree with our top choice, but what about the rest?

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“We wanted to challenge all the ideas. We had no rules, no limits, no laws”: why Oliver Stone’s The Doors is the most influential rock biopic ever made

Oliver Stone’s The Doors divided the critics – and the surviving band members. But it made Jim Morrison a star all over again and laid down the template for the modern rock biopic

Metal Hammer

"Run DMC made me want to rap." These are the albums that mean the most to Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda

From Metallica and Run DMC to The Doors and Simon & Garfunkel, Mike Shinoda's tastes are unsurprisingly vast

Chicago Sun-Times

George Winston, pianist known for his ‘rural folk’ melodic style, dies at 73

The Grammy Award winner released more than a dozen solo piano albums. He blended jazz, classical, folk and other stylings on such million-selling albums as “Autumn,” “Winter Into Spring” and “December.”

The Independent UK

George Winston, million-selling pianist known for his melodic style, dead at age 73

Grammy-winning pianist George Winston has died

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‘I can do everything but be humble’: Eric Cantona on his surprise new music career

A generational football talent, a celebrated actor and now a chanteur with serious chops – the Frenchman is a polymath par excellence. He discusses politics, mortality and Pep Guardiola

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Why The Velvet Underground hated The Doors

"How fabulous, in a bathtub in Paris!" - Lou Reed, upon hearing of the death of Doors frontman Jim Morrison

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Robby Krieger's track-by-track guide to his favourite songs by The Doors

"Why would a young man like Jim think so much about death? Sure he was a poet. But my theory was that he always felt he had something wrong" - Robby Krieger

Metal Hammer

10 times rock and metal bands totally ruined TV talk shows

From L7's pubes to Sepultura fans causing chaos, here are just some of the reasons we don't get to see many heavy bands on mainstream talk shows

Los Angeles Times

Column: A 91-year-old drummer meets John Densmore of the Doors, and the music soars

LOS ANGELES -- It was around midnight when Steve Hideg made a trip to his bathroom, got dizzy and took a fall.

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Domestic violence survivor returns to volunteer at not-for-profit that helped her

Sue volunteers at the emergency support service that helped her at a time of need, but as demand for help soars the centre's greatest Christmas wish is to keep its doors open next year.

Evening Standard

The 25 greatest American rock bands of all time: Guns N’ Roses to Bon Jovi

From Red Hot Chili Peppers to Foo Fighters, we select the best of the American rock royalty

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